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McManus land
775 “
Rockland Ave.
McManus land, southerly
700 “
Millett St.
Lansdowne Road
Brattle Park
275 ‹‹
Willow Ct.
Mass. Ave , northerly
Ilibbert St.
750 “
Williams St.
Arnold St , northerly
782 “
Total,
7,582 “
A survey, plan and profile was made of Cresent Hill avenue from the Lexington line to Park place. This street was accepted by the Town December 1, 1902, and an appropriation. of $2,500 voted for construction. .
WATER DEPARTMENT.
Lines have been given for the extensions of the Water Works System and all new gates, specials and hydrants have been located and plotted on the plans of the Department. The ser- vice boxes or shut-off gates for buildings have all been located and are being recorded. New and complete plans should be compiled showing boundaries and location of the Water Works property at East Lexington.
CEMETERIES.
The portion of Mount Pleasant Cemetery which was graded in 1901 has been completed by the building of the new avenues.
170
Arno'd St.
Dundee Road
73%
ENGINEER'S REPORT.
A contract was made by the Board of Cemetery Trustees with Michael Kelly for furnishing the material, excavating, etc.
The following are the quantities of the work done under this- contract, the Water Department having first laid about 800 feet of six inch main pipe in the avenues for future use in the. care of the cemetery.
298 cubic yards Blue gravel.
26
66
Screened gravel.
38
66 Light macadam.
111 66 66 Sub-grading.
17 64 66 Brick work in catch-basins.
745
66 66 Tar concrete for gutters.
453 lineal feet, 8-inch, 12-inch and 18-inch pipe laid for catch-basins.
All surplus excavated material was deposited on Meadow Brook Park for filling.
SEWERS.
All new construction this year was done by day labor with the exception of Gray street which was built under contract with H. A. Hanscom & Company, on account of the large quantity of ledge to be excavated.
The methods employed in caring for the sewerage system are the same as last year. The sewers have been thoroughly cleaned and found to be in good condition.
The following table will show details of construction by streets in 1902 :
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TABLE SHOWING COST OF SEWERS BY STREETS, 1902.
Cost of
Total Cost.
Amount of Assess- ments.
Cost per foot.
Average Cut.
Character of Soil.
Labor.
Material.
Bartlett avenue (Woodland street to summit manhole) ..
6
187
$141 91
$50 82
$192 73
$170 70
$1 03
6.5 ft.
Ledge and gravel. Blue gravel and boulders.
8
63
53 44
12 10
65 54
397 60
1 40
8.5 ft.
Coarse gravel and ledge.
8
465
1,187 60
140 87
1,328 47
458 14
2 86
7.5 ft.
Ledge and blue gravel.
8
14
29 49
25 00
54 49
3 89
7
ft.
Boulders and wet loam.
Jason street . Extension to Woodland street)
8
125
116 04
46 33
162 37
149 07
1 30
7.5 ft.
Loam and boulders.
8
314
220 51
94 47
314 98
404 92
1 00
8
ft.
Blue gravel.
8
269
230 63
127 74
358 37
337 42
1 33
7.5 ft.
Blue gravel and ledge.
North Union street.
6
141
85 43
30 65
116 08
80 22
82
8.5 ft.
Sand and gravel.
Peirce street (Forest street to Clark street).
CO
473
541 17
220 68
761 85
478 85
1 61
9
ft.
Coarse gravel. Sand.
8
305
629 86
127 53
757 39
378 91
2 48
9.5 ft.
Ledge and blue gravel.
8
302
186 35
78 27
264 62
333 01
88
5
ft.
Blue gravel and boulders.
Wollaston ave. (West st. to Wachusett ave.) Woodland st. (Jason st. to Bartlett ave.) ....
8
284
477 18
112 77
589 95
327 65
2 09
8.5 ft.
Ledge loam and boulders.
Total construction, 1902 .. .3,512 feet, or 0.67 miles.
Total length of sewers December 31, 1902. ... ..... 22.05 miles. Sewers owned by Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 3.47 miles.
ENGINEER'S REPORT.
Westminster ave. (Montague st. to Lexing- ton line) ...
8
223
165 09
81 29
246 38
223 87
1 10
9.5 ft.
Warren street (Palmer to Wyman).
1 04
8.5 ft.
Bartlett avenue (Extension to Gray street) .. Forest st., Massachusetts ave. to Peirce st .. Gray street (Extension to summit manhole) Irving street ...
8
347
368 45
114 88
483 33
..
Lowell st. (Westmoreland ave., 314 ft north) Mount Vernon.
Size.
Length.
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ENGINEER'S REPORT.
TABLE SHOWING BUILDINGS ON LINES OF SEWERS.
Street.
Total Build- ings.
B'Id'gs Con- nected.
Street.
Total B'Id'gs Build-
Con- ings. nected.
Academy
19
17
Moore pl.
6
6
Addison
13
11
Mt. Vernon
16
9
Appleton
11
5
Mystic
.
32
17
Ashland
5
1
Palmer .
18
14
Avon pl.
10
6
Park av.
24
14
Bacon
9
4
Park
27
5
Bartlett av.
26
23
Park st pl.
4
4
Beacon
33
8
Paul Revere road
8
6
Belnap
8
2
Peirce
3
3
Broadway
41
21
Pelham terrace
7
7
Central
16
9
Pleasant .
51
32
Chapman
2
2
Pond lane
·
1
I
Chestnut
4
3
Prescott .
3
1
Claremont av.
23
11
Ravine
2
2
Cleveland
10
8
Right of way, (Swan st.)
1
1
Cliff
2
1
Robbins road .
9
8
Cottage av.
14
4
Russell
14
8
Court
10
6
Russell terrace
6
5
Crescent Hill av.
17
6
Sawin
8
6
Cross
4
2
Schouler court
14
9
Decatur
15
5
Swan
4
1
Devereaux
1
1
Swan pl.
12
5
Elder terrace
3
2
Tanager
13
11
Florence av.
6
3
Teel
30
26
Forest
6
1
Teel st. pl.
4
. .
Franklin
27
18
Wachusett av.
2
2
Gray
17
16
Walnut
9
4
Henderson
43
22
Walnut ct.
7
5
Hillside av.
22
13
Warren
13
6
Irving
8
8
Water
11
7
Jason
43
30
Webster
16
6
Lake
9
3
Wellington
9
6
Lakeview
1
1
Westmoreland av.
9
3
Lewis av.
18
11
Westminster av.
18
13
Linwood
3
1
Whittemore
9
7
Lowell
23
14
Willow pl.
3
1
Lowell st. pl.
8
5
Winter
9
5
Maple
10
8
Wollaston av.
18
15
Marathon
5
5
Woodland
3
1
Massachusetts av.
260
142
Wyman .
16
7
Medford
28
14
Mill
6
3
1,314
768
Montague
6
3
·
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ENGINEER'S REPORT. :
PARTICULAR SEWERS.
The labor and materials on Particular Sewers have been fur- nished by the Sewer Department as in previous years. The cost of the work this year is less per foot than any year since the work began in 1896.
LIST OF PARTICULAR SEWER CONNECTIONS TO JAN. 1, 1903.
Buildings Connected.
Number of Connections.
Length
Average Cost per foot.
1896
116
114
8,341
.. 68
1897
132
122
7,633
.69
1898
110
115
7,397
.61
1899
128
125
7,178
.58
1900
89
90
5,228
.61
1901
97
94
6,467
1.53
1902
96
91
5,437
.51
Totals,
768
751
47,681
Total cost of Particular Sewers to date
$32,579 58
Total receipts for Particular Sewers
32,344 77
Balance
$ 234 81
Amounts due the Town from unsettled accounts,
$247 75
The Engineering Department is now well equipped with the necessary instruments for handling the engineering work of the Town in an economical manner. A part, however, of the instruments were purchased by the Sewer Department for use on sewer construction and should be transferred by an appro- priation to the Engineering Department, as they are now used on general Town work for all departments.
The new vault which has been provided in the basement of the Town Hall has relieved the crowded condition of the old vaults and allows much needed space for the accommodation of the plans and records not in daily use.
Respectively submitted,
ROBERT W. POND,
Town Engineer.
.
REPORT OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS.
The Sewer Commissioners submit the following statement as showing the condition of the Sewer Department at the end of the year 1902, the details of the work for the year will be found in the report of the Town Engineer.
SEWER DEPARTMENT STATEMENT JAN. 1, 1903.
Cr. Dr.
Total assessments levied to Jan. 1, 1903
$128,594 90
Assessments abated
$1,036 89
Assessments levied on cemeteries and Town property and deemed not collectable .
2,784 95
Assessments levied on church prop- erty, etc., deemed uncollect- able
1,404 99
Assessments levied on sewers built by Metropolitan Sewer Com- mission and to be paid the Commonwealth 4,261 03 · Appropriation for Henderson street district sewers 10,500 00
Bond issue 1896 for sewer con- struction
100,000 00
Amounts carried forward,
$9,487,86 $239,094 90
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SEWER COMMISSIONERS.
Amounts brought forward,
$9,487 86 $239,094 90
Sale of main sewer to Common- wealth of Massachusetts, less collectable assessments . .
Amount expended for sewer construction and maintenance (including Henderson street district sewers) as per Town Treasurer's balance, Jan. 1, 1903 .
42,400 13
267,212 34
$276,700 20 $281,495 03 276,700 20
Balance
$4,794 83
Stock and materials on hand for new construction ·
776 58
Amounts due from other depart- ments and individuals
275 88
Balance for new construction
$5,847 29
Tools, instruments, storehouse, horses, teams and equipment Estimated value of sewer assess- ment plans
$3,246 70
8,500 00
$17,593 99
We desire to call the attention of the Town to the fact that nearly all the instruments now in general use by the Engineer- ing Department were bought from the funds of the Sewer Department, at a cost of $557.46, for sewer construction pur- poses ; also that the assessments on public property, including
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SEWER COMMISSIONERS.
schools, Town buildings, parks and cemeteries, amounting to $2,785.95 represent an amount of expenditures that have materially reduced the funds available for new construction. We ask that an appropriation to cover these amounts be made at the annual Town meeting to reimbuse the department ; by so doing the work can be continued without further appropria- tions for a period of at least two years. We again recommend that $500 be allowed annually for the care and maintenance of existing sewers.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD S. FESSENDEN, WINFIELD S. DURGIN, WARREN W. RAWSON, Sewer Commissioners.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
For the year ending December 31, 1902; the general health of the Town has been exceptionally good.
The entire number of cases of contagious diseases reported to the Board of Health was 123.
Of this number 103 were measles, 3 diphtheria, 4 scarlet fever, 6 typhoid fever and 7 small-pox.
Of the seven cases of small-pox, four were probably infected in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville, and the remaining three, all in the same family, took the disease from one of the four above named.
In all cases the patients were at once removed to the Somerville Small-pox Hospital, and the remaining members of the family thrice vaccinated, and quarantined for two weeks.
The second case occurred in the thickly settled district of Lewis avenue, and it seemed best to vaccinate all people in that vicinity who had not been recently vaccinated. The vaccination was done by Dr. Keegan.
This included practically all residents of the section bounded by Warren, Franklin, Hamlet and Medford streets.
Cases three, four, five and six were in one house on Teel street.
With the exception of the first case on Teel street, which was practically well when discovered, all were removed to the Somerville Small-pox Hospital as soon as the diagnosis could be definitely made.
A woman was found on Henderson street in the pustular stage of small-pox, she having escaped from a quarantined
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BOARD OF HEALTH.
house in Cambridge. The Cambridge Board of Health imme- diately removed the patient to Cambridge.
All the residents of the Teel and Henderson street district, who had not recently been vaccinated, were at once vaccinated by Doctors Keegan and Hooker, by request of the Board of Health. No new cases developed.
All these cases above mentioned had settlements in other towns and municipalities, and it is expected that their officials will meet the expenses incurred in the care of patients, and quarantine of other members of the several families.
While such extensive vaccination caused considerable expense, it seemed best to take every precaution to prevent the spread of this dread disease in Town.
The practicability of such radical measures may be seen, for with such an opportunity of exposure, no other cases developed, the only spread of the disease being among members of the same family.
The Medical Inspector has made daily visits to the various schools, and the following is his report.
The total number of children examined during the year 1902 was 1,212, of which number 109 were sent home for the follow- ing causes : -
Pediculi,
46
Chicken-pox, 3
Vaccination,
18
Favus,
2
Sore Throat,
19
Ivy poisoning,
2
Measles,
4
Stye,
3
Ringworm,
4
Erysipelas,
1
Pink Eye,
3
Whooping-cough, 1
During the fall term 270 children were examined for vaccina- tion, of whom only 18. were found unvaccinated. The latter were afterwards vaccinated and duly inspected.
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BOARD OF HEALTH.
In a number of suspected cases of whooping-cough the chil- dren have been requested to remain at home. These cases are not included in above list.
Several requests have been made to parents to have children's eyes tested for glasses, which requests have been complied with, with good results
Upon request of the Board of Health, Mr. Harold L. Frost kindly submitted specimens of varieties of weeds, taken from Spy Pond, to Professor G. E. Stone of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Professor Stone states that the vegetable growth seen on and close to the shores of the pond is a species of Algae, whose growth is favored by the lowering of the water of the pond, thereby permitting the material to dry.
The remedy proposed by Professor Stone is to sand the entire shore.
The other growth found in the deeper water is of a decided weedy type, and can only be removed by an exhaustive and complete system of dredging.
Because of the increasing growth of the weeds in the deeper waters of the pond, and its unpleasant appearance on the sur- face of the water during the summer season, we earnestly recommend that the Town make a greater effort to exterminate this growth by a more extensive system of dredging during the coming summer than has been carried on in the past.
PLUMBING INSPECTIONS.
During the year ending December 31, 1902, one hundred and ten plumbing permits were applied for and duly issued. These permits covered a large amount of plumbing. Under some of said permits a portion of the plumbing was done in violation of our Town regulations relating thereto. Defects complained of
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BOARD OF HEALTH.
were remedied, but in some cases after considerable contention had resulted therefrom.
Increase in cost of plumbing the past year has caused much controversy by contractors slighting work to avoid expense in the execution of their contracts.
Enforcement in our Town of the new by-laws relating to the construction of buildings facilitates the inspection of plumbing.
Signed,
EDWARD S. FESSENDEN, EDWIN P. STICKNEY, M. D, EDWIN MILLS,
Board of Health.
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BOARD OF HEALTH.
DEATHS REGISTERED DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1902.
NAMES.
DATE OF DEATH.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
William Colgen.
Jan.
1
37
·
..
Olena Clara Hall.
5
42
6
29
Elizabeth Sweeney
7
5
2
28
Deboralı R. Monroe.
66
S
60
4
22
Julia Streb ...
6
68
4
19
Thomas Williams
15
40
·
·
Mary S. Carter ..
16
71
9
1
Benjamin Ceverg
66
18
26
80
9
19
George E. Crandall
66
27
78
.
·
Elizabeth R. Fifield
66
31
85
6
21
John A. Plummer
Feb.
21
9
22
Mary E. Eveleth. .
66
7
76
. .
..
Ellen Toomey ..
66
17
1
1
26
Edward Donahue.
18
14
1
25
Mead ..
66
23
..
..
Thomas Doherty
28
56
- McGrevy ..
March
2
65
2
20
Cook.
66
3
. .
66
4
37
1
4
Catherine McFarlane.
66
12
73
: .
. .
Alfred LeRoy Main
66
19
4
CO
..
Kate Rockwood.
66
22
40
5
25
Unknown
Dec.
17
..
. .
..
Mary A. Cutter ..
March
28
89
8
29
Russel B. Greenleaf
28
Maria E. Smith ..
66
28
65
8
Emily R. Grossmith
66
. 31
26
4
22
Alice Ruth Easter
April
4
10
8
17
James Muldoon ..
5
56
10
26
Bridget Foohey.
66
12
40
Cynthia P. Edgerley.
21
80
Angelo Caterino
66
25
4
12
: Stingel.
66
25
. .
:
. .
Stingel.
66
25
83
4
6
Bernard McGowan.
30
70
3
10
Isabel J. Fitzgerald.
3
60
. .
66
5
10
5
19
Mary A. Robinson
66
7
32
S
7
Phillip J Ahern.
66
S
73
11
11
Hugh T. Elder
66
10
57
2
·
Frederick Godfrey
15
55
4
4
Thomas E. Thorpe.
19
85
6
9
William A. Seavey
66
19
46
12
Anna Avitabile .
21
27
3
·
·
.
·
.
17
60
.
21
Eliza H. Manchester
27
65
Johannah Callahan.
S
48
· .
..
Sarah E. Nourse
66
2
Jane F. Beals
1091
Harriet L. Kimball.
66
5
69
Elizabeth McCormack ..
9
8
19
20
. .
Martha A. Teele .
Mary Rouse.
May
2
62
2
William N. Andrews.
S
7
Harriet E Hill.
28
. .
11
66
..
8 5 00 cr :
..
. .
6.
. . . . .
. .
Marguerite H. Hughes
Sherman E. Kim ball.
co : 3
. .
1902
28
AGE.
1902
85
BOARD OF HEALTH.
DEATHS-Continued.
NAMES.
DATE OF DEATH.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Andrew Robinson ..
May
19
32
5
19
Frederick E. Barrett
April
3
20
9
14
William Volar
May
17
56
. .
Robert Dinsmore.
June
6
60
. .
Samuel H. Smith.
8
38
Q
3
David Mahoney
Jane Stingel.
Josie E. Le Baron
27
25
10
13
Angelo Dottole.
27
3
9
8
Margaret Roach
July
3
3
1
19
Mary S. Knowlton
60
8
81
·
..
S
65
3
21
Eleanor R. Mead.
9
25
3
21
Ellen Murray
12
25
11
19
Margaret Bemis.
16
60
. .
..
Knowles.
16
. .
. .
. .
Ellen W. Blandy
16
63
11
10
Anna E. Blake ..
17
62
6
18
Margaret Alice O'Hara.
19
43
4
27
Fannie B. Lane.
60
22
73
5
20
Clara W. Smith.
22
58
·
. .
Monica M. Hennessey
24
29
1
20
James E. Whitten.
27
18
3
27
Caroline E. Holmes
29
89
2
21
Charles A Davies
29
47
10
12
Josephine C. Drew
66
31
68
S
17
Waldo W. Forbush
Aug.
5
39
4
18
William Mead ..
6
50
. .
1
Annie Keaney
66
9
26
10
Q
O'Leary
66
15
72
4
29
Henry Harris ...
66
17
73
5
7
Sophia Hill Langdon
19
84
5
19
Sarah C. C. Darling.
66
31
79
8
16
Eleanor G. Godfrey
66
31
81
10
30
Chas. B. Whittemore.
Sept.
S
S2
3
17
Annie Toomey.
Aug.
22
10
..
Daniel J. Mulqueeny.
Sept.
9
27
9
13
Elizabeth Mccluskey.
19
33
7
.
George W. Townsend.
19
63
6
13
Sarah C. Crane.
21
59
5
6
James Hurley.
22
6
22
Lottie D. Higgins
24
21
6
22
James J. Loftus.
28
31
·
Catherine Rowe
28
67
Elvira J. Butman
Sept. .
27
54
. .
:
Frederick Allen.
Sept.
29
75
1
5
Charles F. Gurnsey
Oct.
4
23
S
16
Daniel F. Grant.
6
6
54
·
. .
Mary O'Brien.
66
15
..
.
William Canty.
60
15
3
6
16
7
77
3
..
Sophia Brennan.
3
76
4
20
Catherine C. Gaddis
13
43
·
..
23
64
6
61
..
Catherine Sullivan
Dan G. Drew.
29
Maria B. Bassett ..
30
James H. Fermoyle
9
42
. .
11
Clara Schwamb.
Arthur Swenson
22
11
9
. .
1890
..
1902
AGE.
1902
86
BOARD OF HEALTH.
DEATHS-Concluded.
NAMES.
DATE OF DEATH.
Years.
Mos.
Days.
Mary E. King
Oct.
25
6
8
18
--- Brackett ..
66
25
. .
.
..
Mary A. Hennessey .
Nov.
1
. .
8
25
Alexander Gordon
66
11
3
1
1
Mary A. Packard
66
14
25
3
20
William A. Brown
66
21
1
5
15
John W. Macon ..
66
23
89
10
23
Gerald E. Utting
66
23
47
5
2.2
Alice Raymond.
66
30
32
. .
..
Oliver L. Perkins ..
Dec.
4
47
. .
..
66
5
. .
5
24
Agnes W. Prendergast.
66
6
1
5
5
James A . Hagan
7
48
. .
. .
Daniel Leary .
8
69
Catherine E. Carey
66
40
Mary Hill.
17
22
5
John O'Leary .
66
20
..
. .
. .
Bernard McGeary
20
52
..
13
Lucy A. Bartlett.
66
23
83
3
17
Francis S. Frost.
26
77
9
2
Jeremiah Ryan
29
36
·
·
Whole number of deaths
141
Males ..
6.2
Females.
79
Number under five years of age ...
34
between five and ten years of age ..
66
20
thirty and sixty years of age.
36
16
seventy and eighty “
66
13
66 over ninety years of age.
0
American parentage
51
Foreign parentage.
58
Mixed
15
Unknown.
17
SOME OF THE DISEASES OR CAUSE OF DEATH.
Pneumonia ..
13
Meningitis.
5
Phthisis ...
12
Bronchitis.
1
Heart disease
11
Diphtheria.
1
Carcinoma
3
Cancer.
9
Consumption
1 Tuberculosis.
6
·
·
·
·
1
60
..
. .
5
23
5
5
Edith M Roop.
66
14
78
10
9
Mary E. Dacey
21
. .
5
21
Hubbard Foster.
10
Ida A. Lawrence.
66
30
1
0
. .
Margaret T. Grannan
Gladys W. Byram.
27
Daniel F. Sullivan
6
1
..
. .
Ella M. Spencer ..
20
34
.
2
66 sixty and seventy
21
15
16
66 eighty and ninety
20
- McCarthy .
66
24
1
. .
. .
Kate M. Dickson.
1902
AGE.
66 ten and thirty
REPORT OF PARK COMMISSIONERS.
The maintenance of the park areas in charge of the Park Commissioners is about all the work which has been done during the past year.
At Menotomy Rocks Park a caretaker has been employed throughout the summer season as has been customary in years past. Under the direction of Mr. Harold Frost the trees which were most badly infested with the gypsy moth were burlapped and during the season that the caterpillar is most active these were watched and the caterpillars removed by the caretaker. During each year a considerable number of the trees in this Park die and have to be removed and it is almost impossible to grow new ones to take their places. In the opinion of the Board and the experts whom they have consulted, this is due largely to the loss of nourishment due to removing the leaves which drop in the fall At the present time these are removed by the neighboring farmers to be used as covering, without expense to the Town. The reason for allowing this is that if the leaves remain on the ground they are liable to take fire and cause the destruction of the trees. The nourishment thus lost must be furnished in some way and in the opinion of the Board this could be done by allowing the leaves to remain and rot, but in order to do this safely it would be necessary to have the Park policed for a much longer time each year in order to extinguish any fire which might be started, necessitating a con- siderable increase in the appropriation for maintenance, but it seems to the Board that the money expended for this purpose
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is a good investment as it will tend to preserve the trees and the beautiful appearance of the Park.
At Meadow Park very little filling has been deposited during the year. Early in the season by agreement. between the Selectmen, the Board of Health and the Park Commissioners, the ashes collected near the center of the Town were dumped on the private land lying between the park land and Mystic street, near Chestnut street, to fill up a low area which was becoming a nuisance detrimental to the public health. As soon as the appropriation was made at the annual meeting for the maintenance of the parks, two men were employed to remove brown tail moth nests from the trees in Meadow Park which were badly infested, but very little could be done as the worms began to leave the nests about the time the appropriation was made.
At Russell Park it was found that the walks had been badly gullied and washed, and these gullies were filled in and the walks regraded with blue gravel.
The triangular grass plots on Medford street near Chestnut and Warren streets have been taken care of and the grass cut as in previous years.
The circular area around the standpipe on Arlington Heights has had nothing done to it by the Park Board during the year.
GYPSY AND BROWN TAIL MOTHS.
The trees in both Menotomy Rocks Park and Meadow Park are badly infested with the gypsy and brown tail moths, as are also the trees along the highways and in private land, and unless something is done to stop the work of the moths the trees will undoubtedly be seriously injured. It seems to the Board that we cannot expect help from outside but that if this work is done at all it must be done directly by the Town, and
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we would recommend if it is desired to preserve the trees that an appropriation be made at once to destroy the moths at the earliest possible moment.
During the year Messrs. Olmstead Bros., landscape archi- tects, have completed the work of preparing a design for the construction of Meadow Park, and have delivered to us three sets of plans, one a general plan, another a grading plan, and a third planting plan. They have been paid in full and the plans are on file with the Commissioners.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY D. DODGE, FRANK W. HODGDON, THOMAS HOGAN, Park Commissioners.
JAN. 31, 1903.
REPORT OF TREE WARDEN FOR 1902.
In submitting my second annual report, I do not feel very well satisfied with the the condition that my department is in, as the Town, through the recommendation of the Committee of Twenty-one, refused to make an extra appropriation asked for by me, to cover the expenses for work which I thought neces- sary to be done in destroying the eggs of the gypsy moths in the parks and on private lands. I believe the citizens will have cause to regret their action, for I feel certain if something is not immediately done to stop their ravages, that very soon the whole Town will be infested, as they seem to multiply about three hundred fold every year. The trees on the highways, through the work done the past two years, were practically free from the brown tail and gypsy moths, but again this year, owing to the negligence of land owners, not destroying the pests, there are brown tail nests to be destroyed this year, and I find many more gypsy moth eggs on the highways than last year. The State Board of Agriculture do not seem inclined to do anything to bring the matter before the Legislature this year.
Up to this time, there has been no concerted action taken by the cities and towns in the infested district, each municipality seems to be doing something to stop the spreading of the pest, and I think Arlington should make a larger appropriation or do nothing. About $425 was spent in destroying the nests of the brown tail moths, and $50 on gypsy moths. The balance of the $900 was spent for setting out and caring for trees on the highways.
Herewith find receipts and expenditures :
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation, $900 00
For removing brown tail moth nests from private lands, 87 00
$987 00
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TREE WARDEN.
EXPENDITURES.
Paid A. F. Brooks,
labor, $503 00
Daniel Daley,
.. .. ·
122 90
C. Donovan,
60 65 80
F. Shea, 66
55 50
Charles Parris, 66
38 50
Thomas Lewis, 66
3 50
Thomas Burke,
1 75
James O'Donnell, 66
8 75
Michael Roach,
2 63
C. Reagan, 66
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